Winners, News And Notes On November 11, 2022

WWE SmackDown advertised The Usos vs. The New Day as The Usos look to break The New Day’s record as the longest-reigning WWE tag team champions of all time. Tonight’s broadcast also featured the debut of the SmackDown World Cup and Santos Escobar vs. Shinsuke Nakamura. SmackDown also advertised a Six-Pack women’s match to determine the new No. 1 Contender for Ronda Rousey’s SmackDown Women’s Championship.

Last week’s broadcast of WWE SmackDown garnered 2.131 million viewers.

WWE SmackDown Results | November 11, 2022

• The Usos def. The New Day | WWE Tag Team Championship
• Santos Escobar def. Shinsuke Nakamura | WWE World Cup
• Shotzi def. Raquel Rodriguez, Xia Li, Liv Morgan, Sonya Deville and Lacey Evans

WWE SmackDown Ratings

• November 4, 2022 | 2.131 million
• October 28, 2022 | 835,000
• October 21, 2022 | 2.231 million
• October 14, 2022 | 2.274 million
• October 7, 2022 | 2.243 million

WWE SmackDown Venue: Gainbridge Fieldhouse (Indianapolis, IN.)

• WWE SmackDown Tickets Distributed: 8,791
• Available Tickets: 352

WWE SmackDown Winners and Match Card

The Usos def. The New Day

This was easily The New Day’s most important match in at least a year, and it sure felt like it.

The most over person in this match between The New Day and The Usos was Sami Zayn. Zayn was out with a personal issue, but that didn’t stop fans from chanting “we want Sami” and “Sami Uso” throughout. As Zayn’s popularity grows out of control, WWE may have a problem on its hands.

The New Day began to get frustrated after a few nearfalls, and it made me think that maybe now is the time to turn them heel for the first time in seven years.

If I had a dollar for every time Michael Cole said The New Day was trying to “secure their legacy,” I’d be able to buy Twitter.

This was a great match, but the finish was somewhat underwhelming as The Usos caught Kofi Kingston in a sloppy midair 1D.

Santos Escobar def. Shinsuke Nakamura

The SmackDown World Cup seems to be WWE’s answer to the AEW All Atlantic Championship.

I can’t wait for Legado Del Fantasma to get over enough for fans to sing along with their theme song.

For whatever reason, Joaquin Wilde was dressed exactly like Pee Wee Herman.

Backstage, Bray Wyatt interrupted an LA Knight promo. Crazy as it sounds, this was the biggest moment of LA Knight’s WWE career. Unfortunately for LA Knight, the segment ended with Wyatt head-butting Knight.

Shotzi Wins Six-Pack Women’s Match

Poor Liv Morgan and Raquel Rodriguez screwed up a table spot and these fans were furious. Fans immediately started chanting “table,” and it was not used.

Surprisingly, Shotzi won this match and will be a pig to slaughter challenging Ronda Rousey for the SmackDown Women’s Championship.

Braun Strowman def. Jinder Mahal

After the weekend he had, the finish of this match has to be Braun Strowman via moonsault.

This crowd went crazy for Braun Strowman, which is another indication of how little of these paying customers are represented on Twitter.

This match followed a promo on Ricochet, who weighed in on Braun Strowman’s Twitter controversy himself. If this doesn’t result in Sami Zayn winning the World Cup, it has to result in a finals between Strowman and Ricochet.

The Viking Raiders Destroy Hit Row and Legado Del Fantasma

The Viking Raiders attached these two factions from behind after a barefoot Sarah Logan showed up at the top of the entrance.

Among other over-the-top language used to narrate this assault, Michael Cole noted that “the Gods have opened their eyes.”

Triple H seems to be bringing in one stable after another just to beat up the other stable. Next month, I’m sure Tony D’Angelo and co. will beat up The Viking Raiders.

The Bloodline Brawls with Brawlin’ Brutes, McIntyre

Roman Reigns said he had some business to attend to, and with WarGames around the corner, I’m curious if this business will involve Bray Wyatt and the Wyatt 6.

When fans are chanting “Ucey,” I can’t tell whether they’re doing so in support of Roman Reigns or the absent Sami Zayn.

Sheamus returned, and the poor guy was sabotaged by a bad mic. Roman Reigns immediately capitalized by saying “you can’t even get the mic to work! What are you gonna do?!” Barrett also had a great line when he said “Sheamus’ mic doesn’t work, but his fists do.”

WarGames looks to be Drew McIntyre and The Brawlin’ Brutes vs. The Bloodline. The babyfaces will need a fifth, which sounds like a job for Seth Rollins.